Amazon is All-In on games.

We believe the evolution that began with arcade communities a quarter at a time, growing to the live streams and eSports of today, will continue to a future where everyone is a gamer and every gamer can create, compete, collaborate and connect with others at massive scales. If you share our belief that games will produce some of the future’s most influential voices in media and art, come join us. At Amazon Game Studios, you’ll have the power of Amazon Web Services’ cloud, Twitch, Amazon Lumberyard, and our digital and physical media publishing infrastructure available as raw material to forge a future filled with amazing experiences for players, streamers and creators.

As a Software Development Manager (SDM) in Amazon Games Services, you will manage a team focused on creating the core technologies and services needed to build, launch, and run online games worldwide. This will be a cross-disciplinary group of engineers to help build and maintain highly reliable live services for games. You will work closely with your team to identify and solve ambiguous technical problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where your teams services could improve developer integrations or related customer experiences.

The successful candidate will:

Be passionate about forming and maintaining a highly effective team; both from hiring and developing others
Keep the development team deeply connected to goals by broadcasting customer needs, customer feedback, product roadmaps, and product KPIs
Be a champion for operational excellence: insisting on the highest standards and continuous improvements
Work closely with engineers to drive architecture and develop the best technical design
Collaborate on product road-mapping, project planning and consistently deliver against plans
Drive clarity on requirements and align on technical vision and execution
Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
Regularly report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance
Review technical deliverables to provide detailed feedback

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
5+ years of software development experience.
5+ years of experience with at least one object-oriented programming language such as Java or C++.
2+ years of management experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Game industry experience working on large-scale, commercial online game services.
Experience building and operating extremely high volume and highly scalable online services.
Experience with distributed services oriented architectures.
Experience of building solutions using AWS technologies.
Java/C++ Coding Experience.
Strong analytic and problem solving skills.
Experience with professional software engineering best practices such as Agile project management, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Expert in software engineering practice, including system architecture design, testing, instrumentation, automation and devops.
Deep experience with monitoring, metrics, and instrumentation.
Strong leadership, project planning and execution skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.